Numbers 5:29
This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:11And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one may offer unto the LORD.
Leviticus 13:59This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby;
Numbers 5:15then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of His delight; and He looked for justice, but behold violence; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:12-31
The Bitter Water of Jealousy. ( b. c. 1490.) 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of… Read the whole commentary →